Job Description

Help bring research to life and drive your career forward with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canada\'s largest research and technology organization.
We are looking for a scientifically curious, detail-oriented and reliable Analytical Scientist to support drug development projects in our Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre. The selected candidate would be someone who shares our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect and Creativity.
A typical day for the successful candidate will involve planning, executing, and analyzing data from a very diverse array of analytical laboratory experiments used to characterize biologics-based samples (Ex. recombinant proteins, antibodies, conjugates, viral vectors, CAR-T cells). This day may also include training in one or several different techniques - as well as helping to train other colleagues, assisting in administrative and support roles such as purchasing of reagents/supplies, preparing scientific reports, assisting in the development of new analytical assays, attending internal and external meetings, writing standard operating procedures (SOPs), documenting experiments in laboratory notebooks, general maintenance of equipment and laboratory facilities, and presenting data at internal meetings.
You will interact with, and have the opportunity to learn from, a diverse array of teams within the NRC community that have different expertise as well as many Canadian industrial (Biotech/Pharma) and academic partners.
In any given week, you will have the opportunity to work on important drug development projects with potentially national significance \xe2\x80\x93 examples are provided in the links below.

Made-in-Canada cancer therapy offers patients new hope

Unlocking the potential of biologics to put a bulls-eye on cancer - National Research Council Canada

Supporting innovation through collaboration: Forbius on the move - National Research Council Canada
https://nrc.canada.ca/en/stories/quest-vaccine-nrc-researchers-mobilize-advance-technologies-against-covid-19

National Research Council of Canada supports development of 4 COVID-19 therapeutic candidates (newswire.ca)